Citation
Janet Brigham, Nicotine Ampersand Tobacco, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntn009
Extract
The year was 1997. The Publications Committee of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) had secured a publisher and an editor-in-chief for the society’s new journal.
The excitement of the new editor, Gary E. Swan, was evident and infectious. As editor of the SRNT Newsletter, I telephoned Gary one day to discuss the journal and consequently eventually joined the research center in California where he is director. He consequently pulled me into the early decisions on building the journal.
One feature of the journal was determined early: It would have an introductory section, similar to those of Science and other journals that emphasize dissemination. At an editors’ workshop in Washington, DC, we met a Pulitzer-nominated science journalist named Richard Hébert. Gary engaged him to write the summaries for the introductory section, a task Richard has continued for more than a decade.
Back in California, we set a style for the journal and determined how to handle submissions. Then one day Gary stopped by my office to ask whether I thought the journal’s title should use an and or an ampersand: Nicotine and Tobacco Research or Nicotine & Tobacco Research? I responded without hesitation, “An ampersand. Definitely, an ampersand.”
